Cisco 2811, Hot List in Cisco 2800 Series Integrated Services Routers. Cisco 2800 Series, for Small to Large Offices

The used Cisco 2800 Series routers, ideal for small to medium-sized businesses and enterprise branch offices, offer secure, wire-speed delivery of concurrent data, voice, and video services; offer features such as hardware-based VPN encryption acceleration, intrusion-protection and firewall functions, and optional integrated call processing and voice mail; offera wide variety of network modules and interfaces, voice digital signal processor (DSP) slots, high-density interfaces for a wide range of connectivity requirements, and sufficient performance and slot density for future network expansion requirements and advanced applications.

The Cisco 2800 Series comprises four platforms:Cisco 2801,Cisco 2811,Cisco 2821, and Cisco 2851.Cisco 2801and Cisco 2811are one rack unit in height and have two 10/100 LAN ports. The more powerful Cisco 2821 routers and Cisco 2851 routers are two rack units in height and have two 10/100/1000 LAN ports.

The higher-end router platforms of the Cisco 2800 series offer increased performance, increased slot density including network module slots ad extension voice module slots and increased inline power output.

Better serve for small to large business, Cisco 2800 series owns several hot models among Cisco users, such as Cisco 2811, Cisco2821, and Cisco2851, especially Cisco 2811 routers, very popular by google search. So let’s check some details of Cisco 2811 router:

The Cisco 2811 Integrated Services Router provides the following support:

•Wire-speed performance for concurrent services such as security and voice , and advanced services to multiple T1/E1/xDSL WAN rates

•Enhanced investment protection through increased performance and modularity

•Increased density through High-Speed WAN Interface Card Slots (four)

•Enhanced Network Module Slot

•Support for over 90 existing and new modules

•Support for majority of existing AIMs, NMs, WICs, VWICs, and VICs

•Two Integrated 10/100 Fast Ethernet ports

•Optional Layer 2 switching support with Power over Ethernet (PoE) (as an option)

•Security

◦On-board encryption

◦Support of up to 1500 VPN tunnels with the AIM-EPII-PLUS Module

◦Antivirus defense support through Network Admission Control (NAC)

◦Intrusion Prevention as well as stateful Cisco IOS Firewall support and many more essential security features

•Voice

◦Analog and digital voice call support

◦Optional voice mail support

◦Optional support for Cisco CallManager Express (Cisco CME) for local call processing in stand alone business for up to36 IP Phones

◦Optional support for Survivable Remote Site Telephony support for local call processing in small enterprise branch offices for up to 36 IP phones

Cisco 2811’s price info at RouterSwitch.com:

Conditions: New Sealed

List price:  US$2,495.00

Wholesale Price: US$1,048.00

You Save:  US$1,447.00 (58.00% OFF)

Cisco Demos WLAN Controller for Branch Offices at Interop

Cisco Systems officials over the past few months have built out the capabilities of their Borderless Networks initiative in such areas as mobility, security and management. Now the networking giant is looking to extend the reach of the strategy into branch offices.

At Interop 2011 this week in Las Vegas, cisco router officials are showing off their new Flex 7500 Series Cloud Controller and new Integrated Services Router Web Security products for the ISR G2 branch router. The products are part of Cisco’s efforts to meet the demand from businesses that are looking to bring such key capabilities as management and security out of the branch offices and back into main headquarters, according to Prashanth Shenoy, senior manager of Borderless Networks marketing.

“Since data centers began consolidating about a decade ago, a lot of things have been moved out of the branch offices and into the central data center,” Shenoy said in an interview with eWEEK, adding that IT departments are being asked to grow the level of services they offer while seeing their staffing being reduced.

Despite that consolidation, businesses still need to offer the same level of service and user experience to their employees in the branch offices, he said. With the new products announced May 10, businesses will be able to consolidate more of their IT infrastructure in the central data center—a move that will help drive down capital and operational costs—without hurting the operations of the branch offices, and deliver their services through the increasingly popular cloud computing model.

The Flex 7500 Series Cloud Controller is housed in the data center, letting IT administrators remotely manage up to 500 branch offices from a central location. They can remotely wireless policies, manage the branch offices and offer security settings without the time and expense of having to physically go to the offices, Sylvia Hooks, senior manager of mobility marketing at cisco871 , said in an interview.

The new WLAN (wireless LAN) controller can control up to 2,000 WiFI access points—twice the number currently supported—and more than 20,000 clients from the data center, Hooks said. A goal was to “allow the branch office to be independent” while still getting the technology capabilities they need to do their jobs, she said.

 The controller is available immediately, starting at $47,955.

In addition, Cisco in July will start shipping the ISR Web Security software, which extends the company’s ScanSafe Cloud Web Security to branch offices by putting centralized Web protection and malware detection onto the ISR G2 branch router.

According to  cisco 871 officials, the new software will not require businesses to buy more hardware. Instead, the software is in the router, enabling branch offices to use local Internet access capabilities, which will save users time, money and resource that otherwise would go toward hardware deployments.

The software can be delivered via the cloud, while the management is done centrally, they said.

Cisco is aggressively building out its Borderless Networks efforts, which revolve around the idea of getting access to a company’s network anytime, from anywhere and through any device.

Cisco's Struggles Continue: Tech Weekly

REDMOND, Wash. (TheStreet) -- Cisco router (CSCO_) was, once again, the big story of the week after it reported underwhelming third-quarter numbers following market close Wednesday. Despite beating earnings estimates, Cisco delivered a weak outlook for a third consecutive quarter, and saw its shares tank.

Cisco also provided additional details of its restructuring plan on its conference call.ws-c2960-24pc-l The company said it plans to implement a headcount reduction this summer and that it's targeting $1 billion in cost reductions by the end of fiscal year 2012.

The tech giant's switch sales were down 9% year over year, as rivals such as HP(HPQ_) and Juniper(JNPR_) increasingly target its customers. vs-c6509ve-s72010g

The public sector also remains a major area of weakness for Cisco, although the company's routing and services businesses were robust.

Cisco is taking its long-term growth rate target of 12% to 17% off the table, according to CEO John Chambers, who warned that the company needs to become much more agile. "We have to move faster," vs-c6509e-s720-10g he said. "It's my responsibility, the buck stops here -- I get it."

Cisco exec can see the end of set-top box era

Cisco solution (Nasdaq: CSCO), which got into the set-top box business by acquiring box pioneer Scientific Atlanta, expects it will get out of that business by using its traditional strengths--IP and the Internet cloud--Ken Morse, CTO of Cisco's Service Provider Technology Group said during a keynote address at a Light Reading event in New York City.

"Set-tops are clearly moving to the point where they are either a piece of software that lives in another device or they're virtualized totally in the cloud," Morse said during the address.

The change out, of course, depends on cable migrating to IP technology which the industry has not hurried to do, and the cloud maintaining some semblance of reliability and security. On the other hand, the end of the set-top era could spell good news for Cisco software which recently reported that sales of set-tops were "challenged."

Is John Chambers still good for Cisco?

If you had bought 100 shares of Cisco the month John Chambers became CEO, it would have cost you $3,499.92 ($35/share) and be worth $31,156.80 today. But if you had waited until the day Chambers became both CEO and chairman ($24.34/share), you'd have spent $2,434 and it would be worth only $1,730.93 today, a 29% loss. Ouch.
This according to the stock calculator tool used Cisco hosts on its site, which includes stock splits and adjustments and assumes reinvestment of dividends.

<sup>If you bought your 100 shares the day Chambers became CEO...


If you bought your 100 shares the day Chambers became chairman ...</sup>

In November, John Chambers will be celebrating his five-year anniversary of operating the company without a boss, as both CEO and chairman of the board. (January, 1995, Chambers becames CEO; November, 2006: Chambers became chairman and CEO.)
Prior to that, the populist view of Chambers was that he was a master of business execution. For many years, he was good for Cisco. But since he added the chairman role to his CEO title in 2006, Cisco has arguably not faired as well. Calls for his departure have recently gone from a whisper to a hum. A month ago, Forbes wrote a column entitled, Does Cisco Systems Have a John Chambers Problem? in which it pointed out, "Five years ago it netted 27 cents per dollar of revenue; now it gets just over a dime."
Then again, a Change.org petition started eight days ago entitled Fire John Chambers which hopes to gather 1 million signatures has accrued only a single one. So maybe calls for his exodus are somewhat less than a hum ... and more like a yawn.
To be fair, since Chambers first became CEO, revenue has grown astoundingly. Net income has grown, too, but at a much more meager pace. The first fiscal year completed after John Chambers was named CEO, Cisco had annual revenues of $1.2 billion with a profit (net income) of $410,456. In 2006, Cisco had revenues of $28.5 billion and profits (net income) of $5.8 billion. In 2010 it hit revenues of $40 billion and profits of $7.8 billion (net income).

In counter to the Forbes article and the valuation of 100 shares, Seeking Alpha's Gregory Lemelson thinks that revenue growth means investors have gotten a good deal in the past five years. He wrote a long-winded piece on how owner's equity has increased for Cisco shareholders over that time period. (He notes that he had recently invested his clients' money, but not his own, in Cisco two months ago). His argument is that the share price of $18.08 in 2006 would have gotten you a portion of about $24 billion in equity, versus the $17-ish price today gaining you a piece of a company valued at $45.5 billion -- with roughly the same number of outstanding shares circulating. And there's always at least once buyer for the shares, Cisco. Granted, shareholders can't really realize such equity unless the company is sold for parts, but it's certainly a fair way to figure out value.
I admit that I'm taking a small snapshot of the work Chambers has done in the past five years, leaving out an analysis of the most important part: new products developed. That said, share price, and Chambers role in it, means everything to Cisco. The company uses its stock to buy the technologies it needs. (See Cisco most acquisitive in 2010). If it misses analysts projections, Chambers is willing to layoff a bunch of his employees over it, too, as the Flip news this week shows.
Just for fun, let's say you bought 100 shares of refurbished Cisco at its IPO, ($23.01) on February 16, 1990 (about a year before Chambers joined the company). It would have cost you $2,301.12 and be worth $498,508.68 today. Then again if you were smart enough to have sold it in March, 2000, during the height of the bubble, you'd have netted $2.2 million and change ($77.81/share).
Do you have confidence that Chambers is leading Cisco in a good direction for all involved: investors, employees, partners and customers?